Quarks were originally going to be named “partons” after singer Dolly Parton, but Mr. Murray Gell-Mann changed his mind and went with quarks after seeing the word in Finnegans wake. while feynmann developed the Parton model which was similar to the quark model

Vishwas B Sharma

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Guessing the book is Strange Beauty, the biography of Murray Gill Mann. The rumour is about the naming of Quark particles based on characters from book Finnigans Wake and Dolly Partons. I guess quarks is the reason the clue is as it is…:P

akhi

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That Feynman called them as Partons(after Dolly Parton) and Gell-Mann wanted to name them as Quarks after coming across that word in Finnegan Wake.

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Feynman named the particle the parton, after Dolly Parton. American Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann named his discovery the quark, after the sound seagulls make as told in Finnegans wake

Manish Achuth

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Murray Gell Mann named quarks after characters in Finnegans Waks by James Joyce. Richard Feynman wanted to name them partons after Dolly Parton.